What are Some Tips for Keeping Seasonal Allergies Under Control?

Well, the biggest tip is to know what you’re allergic to and how to address this. So if you don’t know, certainly you find that out, see your doctor. What I do with most of patients is bring them in about a month before allergy season starts and we start them on their allergy regimen at that time. It carries them through. Let’s say they have spring allergies – we get them in, maybe March and start them on their Claritin, Allegra or whatever else we use. Run that through until spring is done and passed and sometime in the summer we take them off of it and that keeps them under control. Some people require those medications year-round. That’s a little different situation. But, the medications, talk with your doctor, is a very good way to do that. Other things you can help to prevent allergies in the home: Certainly Hepa filters are big now, those certainly work very well. When you wash sheets and such, wash them probably weekly, more often if you want to, but weekly is probably best. Make sure you wash them with high temperature water, to get all the little dust mites and such out of them; that helps with allergies, as well. If you know you’re allergic to something, stay away from it. It’s easy to do with foods; a little harder to do with environmental allergies, but if you know you’re allergic to something, don’t go near it.